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René Merced :vm: 🇵🇷

Investors snap up growing share of US homes as traditional buyers struggle to afford one

apnews.com/article/real-estate

A home for sale in Sudbury, Mass., is shown on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)
AP News · Investors snap up growing share of US homes as traditional buyers struggle to afford oneReal estate investors are buying a larger share of U.S. homes as high prices and borrowing costs deter traditional buyers. A report by BatchData shows investors purchased nearly 27% of homes sold in the first quarter of the year, the highest in five years. This marks a rise from the 18.5% average share between 2020 and 2023. The housing market has slowed since early 2022 due to rising mortgage rates, leaving more inventory for cash-ready investors. While most investor-owned homes belong to small-scale owners, large institutional investors are scaling back purchases, with many selling more homes than they buy.
#news#USnews#housing
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Nikolas Kozloff

Indeed what about the right to #breathe, which cuts across class lines and the #HABITABILITY crisis in #Barcelona and #NewYork which does not get nearly as much political attention as the #affordability crisis
apnews.com/article/heat-wave-e #climatechange

AP News · Barcelona records the hottest June ever as a heat wave grips EuropeEurope is enduring a severe heat wave with record-breaking temperatures reported in multiple countries. Barcelona experienced its hottest June since 1914 with an average temperature of 78 degrees Fahrenheit and a single-day high of 100 F on Monday. France issued red alerts for extreme heat, closing over 1,300 schools and warning of wildfire risks. A construction worker has died in Italy, possibly due to heat exposure. The Netherlands adjusted events to avoid peak heat, while Portugal recorded its highest-ever June temperature of 115 F. Climate experts warn such extreme heat events are likely to become more frequent in the future.
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

#ZohranMamdani Delivers Stunning Blow to 'Billionaire-Backed Status Quo' in #NYC

"The people of #NewYorkCity proved that a movement powered by hope, courage, and working people can beat the money of billionaires," said one Mamdani supporter.

from #CommonDreams
Jake Johnson
Jun 25, 2025

"#Affordability was a key focus of #Mamdani's policy platform and messaging, with the #Democratic state assemblymember calling for an immediate rent freeze for all of the city's rent-stabilized tenants, the creation of a network of city-owned grocery stores focused not on profits but on "keeping prices low," and free childcare.

Mamdani proposed funding those and other priorities with a higher tax rate on corporations and city residents earning more than $1 million per year—fueling the backlash his campaign faced from the ultra-wealthy."

commondreams.org/news/zohran-m

#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #NewYork #Cuomo #election #progressive #DemocraticSocialist
#news #press

Common Dreams · Zohran Mamdani Delivers Stunning Blow to 'Billionaire-Backed Status Quo' in NYC | Common Dreams"The people of New York City proved that a movement powered by hope, courage, and working people can beat the money of billionaires," said one Mamdani supporter.
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Miss Gayle

"Every city department, from planning to finance and even public works, has a role to play in improving the system. These departments are filled with staff who are most familiar with the current system and can help address places where it is broken.

This reform can occur from the bottom up with the resources our cities have today. When that happens, we'll do more than address housing affordability."

Link: strongtowns.org/journal/2025/6

"Housing Is Not a Numbers Problem—It’s a Systems Problem" by Edward Erfurt, June 19, 2025 When we recognize the housing crisis as a systems and strategy problem, we realize that there is no shortage of things cities can do right now to address it.
#Housing#Community#Sustainability
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Miss Gayle

"Who asked for this? Who voted for this? Who will resist?"

Have fun paying for muskrat and google and bezo's energy and water usage. You know they're not going to. And if there's not enough water for you and them? Guess who is going without! I'll give you a hint - it's not them.

AI Demands to Be Fed. We’re All Servers Now Andrew Nikiforuk, originally published by The Tyee June 18, 2025 The colossal energy demands of artificial intelligence have earth-shaking implications for everyone. Already rising steeply, they are set to accelerate at a dizzying pace as various global powers race to be the first to achieve supreme intelligence over everything. Teaser image credit: Datacenter Equinix AM3 (low-rise) en AM4 (high-rise) in Amsterdam design by Benthem Crouwel architects, completed in 2017. By Choinowski – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=146691474 "Let’s be clear about what we are doing here. We are using lakes of clean water, reviving coal-powered stations, gulping methane, raising electrical prices, squandering agricultural land and cannibalizing electrical supplies to ask inane questions and make videos about stupid shit."
#Electricity#AI#Community
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Miss Gayle

"I feel bombarded by articles on the U.S. housing crisis, which inevitably display suburban tract homes sprawling across the landscape or promote skyscraper apartments instead. I look at these patterns on the landscape and think, “What an utter waste.” We are doubling down on a way of life that has no possible good future."

Article: resilience.org/stories/2025-05

Growing the Shire, Not the ‘Burb: Facing the Housing Crisis with Ecological Sanity Jason Bradford, originally published by Resilience.org May 27, 2025 By putting this idea out there – that we can respond wisely to the polycrisis by building ecologically savvy agrarian villages – I hope to capture the imagination & fruitful energy of some of you. "In early 2025, the U.S. human population is about 340 million. The housing stock is 150 million, so that on average there are 2.3 people per home. Home size is large, with newly constructed homes averaging 2,600 square feet. New homes sell on average for $665,000, which works out to $250 per square foot. This enormous sum, allocated among 2.3 people, is around $290,000 per person. It’s a lot of money, and, this is key, each of these residences is tied to an infrastructure that locks it into industrial-scale flows of energy & materials that are paid for by wage earners. Now I’m going to bring up something that is almost never discussed in the context of housing, let alone road building, career choices, or the future of college football, but is absolutely critical to all of these and much more: planetary boundaries...You should quickly make the cognitive leap (actually only a tiny hop) to understand that the life-support systems of Earth are undermined by normal daily living in industrial modernity...which needs to be reduced by about an order of magnitude to have any hope of keeping Spaceship Earth conducive to Homo sapiens."
#Sustainability#PolyCrisis#Housing
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Miss Gayle

Absolutely.

If you aren't paying your employees living wages, you're nothing but a plantation owner in drag who is cosplaying "business owner" because you're incompetent and/or greedy. You are a sh!t person.

People have a basic human right to living wages for each hour of their life that they have to give to your business. They can't get that hour back, and you don't deserve it.

You don't deserve to live off of other people's work.

MikeDunnAuthor @MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social boosted a post from @mamaoffthegrid which said: Why yes, in fact, I do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonal's should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a fucking job and I can't believe this is a considered a radical position for me to take.
#LivingWages#Economy#Wages
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A Guy Named Brian (he/him)

“Just building more by eliminating regulations is not the silver bullet. ‘Abundance’ without an eye for who the abundance serves runs the risk of exacerbating the problem at the core of our economic challenges—the hoarding of power and wealth by the people that already have a lot of, well, abundance.”

#ClimateCrisis #SharedProsperity #InfrastructurePolicy #Transportation #Housing #Affordability #Sustainability #ClimateResilience #SocialInfrastructure #RedliningLegacy

commondreams.org/opinion/share

Common Dreams · Instead of ‘Abundance,’ Let’s Have a Conversation About ‘Shared Prosperity’ | Common Dreams“Abundance” without an eye for who the abundance serves runs the risk of exacerbating the problem at the core of our economic challenges—the hoarding of power and wealth by the people that already have a lot.
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Miss Gayle

A lot of planning and zoning offices across the US apparently think it's still 1995, and that snout houses and mcmansions are or should be the norm to build.

That is a very outdated and short-sighted philosophy.

They're trying to preserve an aesthetic that was frankly ugly to start with, and not what people or the communities actually need.

It's time to create realistic norms & affordable housing.

Link: strongtowns.org/journal/2025/5

"What One First-Time Developer Can Teach Us About Housing Solutions" by Neil Heller 5/8/25 An overlooked opportunity to fight the housing crisis lies not just in scaling up development efforts, but in scaling down barriers. Photo of a row of small wood houses at sunrise. (Source: Paul Kapischka on Unsplash.) "What struck me was how unexceptional this project should be. It wasn’t the product of a large-scale housing initiative. It didn’t rely on tax credits or public subsidies. No special incentives, no unique foundation funding, no ribbon cutting. Just a neighbor stepping up... ...One of the most powerful things we can do is simply make room for small, incremental efforts to happen more easily. That doesn’t mean subsidizing every small developer. It means getting out of the way enough so they can solve problems with the resources they already have... The key is not just deregulation for its own sake. It’s right-sized regulations that fit the scale and intention of local actors. This means: Zoning that allows small lots and compact forms in more areas Building codes calibrated for allowing more homes with simpler construction Predictable, proportional permitting timelines and fees Supportive financing pathways for sub-$1 million projects Technical assistance programs to help first-timers navigate the system (Kalamazoo, Michigan) This is what a healthy development ecosystem looks like. Not just top-down production, but bottom-up participation.
#Housing#Affordability#Sustainability
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